Still means 40Gb is going to be extrememly expensive - and that RAID 1 array of 20 200 Gb disks that drives your business, well how much is tat going to cost to replace?
In the sense that it was a take-over that used vaguely "legitimate" means then you are right. But the fact is that Hitler immediately began to murder his opponents, so the violence was there.
See also Octavian Caesar's (with allies) take-over of the corpse of the Roman Republic.
Little known GSH fact - his father played football for current (and yes! it is going to stay that way) Scottish football (soccer) champions - Celtic. Hail! Hail!
First of all, where did I say Saddam had attacked America? I didn't.
Secondly, I am not an American. I've never even been there, never mind paid any taxes there.
Well, if GWB is a Keynesian it has passed me by. I also think he might have decided to pump prime the economy by spending it on projects inside the US if that was his aim.
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Plus Chuck Yaeger shot one down, so ye olde Mustang wasn't so badly off - must have been the Rolls Royce engines:->
..another reason: With Iraq emerging from sanctions, with the 2nd largest oilresrves on the planet, SH was going to throw you yankees a curve ball. He had plans to move Iraq to an Oil Trade based on Euros -- as Russia and Venezuala (are?) were discussing -- this spells instant disaster for the US Economy.
Why do people on the left in Europe come out with this crap?
The simplest explanation is the best one - US was attacked, thousands were murdered and the US decided it had to eliminate its most aggressive of enemies - namely old mad Sadd himself.
Whether you think that judgement was right or not is another matter, though certainly I think a world wthout Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti is a better place for my kids to grow up in.
It is a foolish thing to link the massive and appalling crimes that have been commited against the Palestinian people with Saddam.
The whole motovation of Abu Amar's take over of the PLO was about the fact that Arab 'strongmen' couldn't deliver - why the change of heart now?
And it is equally foolish to think this was all a war about the euro. The US is going to find it very difficult to finance its trade and domestic deficits in future years regardless and racking up billions of debt to rebuild the nation of Iraq ain't the way to do it! So anybody who thinks that was the reason for the war needs their head examined.
The left should celebrate the end of Saddam - its the end of a small time Stalin and that is a good thing. Thinking up excuses for him isn't what I - a mainstream European social democrat - am about.
I think the real reason that this is not happening is the one hinted at the article in terms of TCO (or at least the perception of TCO). There are a lot of low garde, low paid Windows sysadmins out there and they are a powerful conservative force in the offices of the world.
However, if I was running a new company I'd have nothing to do with Windows, it's too expensive, too inflexible. I'd just hire a better sysop.
Where I work the admin is very resistant to Linux (it frightens him to be honest, because he knows how to plug in a network patch board, but he doesn't really know how to configure TCP/IP) but I was bale to do things for 'free' (ie just my time) in Linux/apache that he said would cost multo.
Strikes me that IPv6 was about to make some progress amongst the early adopters (ie unix/linux users - or at least me) and now it's gonna cost, so what's the point?
I'm not going to type the whole thing out (but it's on pp86 - 87 if anybody else has a copy). Here are the highlights:
"They make a version of their software onto which other people can build an application. The designer sells the application with the underlying software engine running it... a runtime Mac would consist of special ROMs and an architecture designed to specifically do run-only operations... a good way to use a run time Mac would be, say, as an automobile tune-up station and emissions control tester...."
I think what Mr D. had in mind was apple packaging applications with a Mac type interface for x86 boxes. Another poster says they've done this - something called classic - but that passed me by, I have to admit.
Granted there are emulators and such, but a) they ain't made by Apple (are they? I am assuming here) and b) Like all emulators they suck as they blow (again an assumption but this is based on experience with emulators generally).
Apple will die if it merges.
Who'd they merge with?
NeXT
Apple needs to make a real-time Mac You think?
The real unix is an archaic command line.
Indeed, it is. Who do you know who seriously administers their Linux server using anything but a shell prompt? Yes.
Unix has no advantage except it's easy to program I'll buy that. Really? No other advantages?
Unix is old fashioned in its design
The architecures that Dvorak says were the wave of the future are also based on monolithic kernels. He was talking through his hat and at the time Windows NT could not even support remote displays!
I have a book here called "Dvorak predicts" from 1994 which states inter alia 'Apple will die if it merges', 'Apple needs to make a run-time Mac', 'the real Unix operating system is an archaic command line', 'Unix has no advantage except it's easy to program', 'Unix is old fashioned in its design and OS/2 or Windows NT architectures are the wave of the future'.
Correct me if I am wrong, but Apple merged and did not die, there is no rt mac archiecture available (excepting some good hacks that no one would use for business critical processes), unix based servers dominate the internet and MS are scared stiff that an old fashioned unix-like os is going to fillet their business.
Mr Dvorak is as entitled as anyone else to make his predictions, but that doesn't mean he is any good at it.
It is wasteful to employ people to reinvent wheels.
They can design a better wagon instead.
I accept many of the points made above about internal development and so on...and my point was essentially about coders, not designers.
But programs aren't like books - you can always write a better novel, and plenty people are trying - but who is out there trying to write a better spreadsheet?
Open source will cost jobs - just you watch what happens to MS! But in doing so open source will impove the economy and allow us to employ clever and talented people in doing other things. This is the classic argument in favour of free trade and it applies here too.
Hey! There is a perfectly usable apache for the DC. maybe they'd say "cool choice dude", give kudos to your decision to use such a hack friendly device and move on.
Software does want to be free - and the same things that make it freedom loving - it's "lightness" and it's easy reuse mean that the cost of producing it will fall too.
We're dealing with countries that have no regulations about the health and well being of employees.
We're dealing with countries that have no regulations about the environment.
For those of us sitting in Europe that sounds like a pretty good description of the US. Folks, we make cheaper steel than you, so just get over it.
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In Soviet Russia Linus sends you...
Well, you get the idea.
Still means 40Gb is going to be extrememly expensive - and that RAID 1 array of 20 200 Gb disks that drives your business, well how much is tat going to cost to replace?
Don't think the disk is dead just yet.
In the sense that it was a take-over that used vaguely "legitimate" means then you are right. But the fact is that Hitler immediately began to murder his opponents, so the violence was there.
See also Octavian Caesar's (with allies) take-over of the corpse of the Roman Republic.
Little known GSH fact - his father played football for current (and yes! it is going to stay that way) Scottish football (soccer) champions - Celtic. Hail! Hail!
Obviously you didn't read anything I said.
First of all, where did I say Saddam had attacked America? I didn't.
Secondly, I am not an American. I've never even been there, never mind paid any taxes there.
Well, if GWB is a Keynesian it has passed me by. I also think he might have decided to pump prime the economy by spending it on projects inside the US if that was his aim.
Plus Chuck Yaeger shot one down, so ye olde Mustang wasn't so badly off - must have been the Rolls Royce engines :->
Why do people on the left in Europe come out with this crap?
The simplest explanation is the best one - US was attacked, thousands were murdered and the US decided it had to eliminate its most aggressive of enemies - namely old mad Sadd himself.
Whether you think that judgement was right or not is another matter, though certainly I think a world wthout Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti is a better place for my kids to grow up in.
It is a foolish thing to link the massive and appalling crimes that have been commited against the Palestinian people with Saddam.
The whole motovation of Abu Amar's take over of the PLO was about the fact that Arab 'strongmen' couldn't deliver - why the change of heart now?
And it is equally foolish to think this was all a war about the euro. The US is going to find it very difficult to finance its trade and domestic deficits in future years regardless and racking up billions of debt to rebuild the nation of Iraq ain't the way to do it! So anybody who thinks that was the reason for the war needs their head examined.
The left should celebrate the end of Saddam - its the end of a small time Stalin and that is a good thing. Thinking up excuses for him isn't what I - a mainstream European social democrat - am about.
But quite clever all the same. However, some of the explanations were somwhat on the superficial side!
I think the real reason that this is not happening is the one hinted at the article in terms of TCO (or at least the perception of TCO). There are a lot of low garde, low paid Windows sysadmins out there and they are a powerful conservative force in the offices of the world.
However, if I was running a new company I'd have nothing to do with Windows, it's too expensive, too inflexible. I'd just hire a better sysop.
Where I work the admin is very resistant to Linux (it frightens him to be honest, because he knows how to plug in a network patch board, but he doesn't really know how to configure TCP/IP) but I was bale to do things for 'free' (ie just my time) in Linux/apache that he said would cost multo.
Strikes me that IPv6 was about to make some progress amongst the early adopters (ie unix/linux users - or at least me) and now it's gonna cost, so what's the point?
However, do be careful about hasty generalizations. You think that's x86 your CPU's breathing?
You need to explain. Too cryptic for me.
I'm not going to type the whole thing out (but it's on pp86 - 87 if anybody else has a copy). Here are the highlights: "They make a version of their software onto which other people can build an application. The designer sells the application with the underlying software engine running it ... a runtime Mac would consist of special ROMs and an architecture designed to specifically do run-only operations ... a good way to use a run time Mac would be, say, as an automobile tune-up station and emissions control tester...."
I think what Mr D. had in mind was apple packaging applications with a Mac type interface for x86 boxes. Another poster says they've done this - something called classic - but that passed me by, I have to admit.
Granted there are emulators and such, but a) they ain't made by Apple (are they? I am assuming here) and b) Like all emulators they suck as they blow (again an assumption but this is based on experience with emulators generally).
Apple will die if it merges.
Who'd they merge with?
NeXT
Apple needs to make a real-time Mac
You think?
The real unix is an archaic command line.
Indeed, it is. Who do you know who seriously administers their Linux server using anything but a shell prompt?
Yes.
Unix has no advantage except it's easy to program
I'll buy that.
Really? No other advantages?
Unix is old fashioned in its design
The architecures that Dvorak says were the wave of the future are also based on monolithic kernels. He was talking through his hat and at the time Windows NT could not even support remote displays!
I have a book here called "Dvorak predicts" from 1994 which states inter alia 'Apple will die if it merges', 'Apple needs to make a run-time Mac', 'the real Unix operating system is an archaic command line', 'Unix has no advantage except it's easy to program', 'Unix is old fashioned in its design and OS/2 or Windows NT architectures are the wave of the future'.
Correct me if I am wrong, but Apple merged and did not die, there is no rt mac archiecture available (excepting some good hacks that no one would use for business critical processes), unix based servers dominate the internet and MS are scared stiff that an old fashioned unix-like os is going to fillet their business.
Mr Dvorak is as entitled as anyone else to make his predictions, but that doesn't mean he is any good at it.
Not that there are many of either :-(
But that's what my server logs show.
If open source cost jobs, so what?
It is wasteful to employ people to reinvent wheels.
They can design a better wagon instead.
I accept many of the points made above about internal development and so on...and my point was essentially about coders, not designers.
But programs aren't like books - you can always write a better novel, and plenty people are trying - but who is out there trying to write a better spreadsheet?
Open source will cost jobs - just you watch what happens to MS! But in doing so open source will impove the economy and allow us to employ clever and talented people in doing other things. This is the classic argument in favour of free trade and it applies here too.
If you believe free software is good (I do)
And if you believe software reuse must come sometime (I do)
Then you cannot think that there will be a strong market for coders for ever - it just doesn't make sense.
This story is being given big licks because everybody with a desktop thinks MS rules the world.
Of course, MS has been getting screwed in the server market for years and so this is not quite as big as they think...plus it's a week old story!
Having read this I thought "right, go to ebay and buy one to run 'nix on). But they are still 75% more than an "equivalent" PC :-
It's been /.ed and I'd really like/need to read it asap. Hence I am posting at +2. Karma burning away...
Hey! There is a perfectly usable apache for the DC. maybe they'd say "cool choice dude", give kudos to your decision to use such a hack friendly device and move on.
What is all this puffery for netBSD on the Dreamcast? Do you know they don't even use the GPL??!!!
See the url above if you wish to purify yourself.
Software does want to be free - and the same things that make it freedom loving - it's "lightness" and it's easy reuse mean that the cost of producing it will fall too.
The U.S. health system is way ahead of the rest of the world because it is controlled by the people, not the rulers.
Ha! Ha! This is a joke, right?
We're dealing with countries that have no regulations about the health and well being of employees.
We're dealing with countries that have no regulations about the environment.
For those of us sitting in Europe that sounds like a pretty good description of the US. Folks, we make cheaper steel than you, so just get over it.